According to newly released documents by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, federal agents would pay Geek Squad employees to flag illegal materials on devices sent in by customers for repairs. "The relationship goes back at least ten years, according to documents released as a result of the lawsuit [filed last year]," reports ZDNet. "The agency's Louisville division aim was to maintain a 'close liaison' with Geek Squad management to 'glean case initiations and to support the division's Computer Intrusion and Cyber Crime programs.'" From the report:

According to the EFF's analysis of the documents, FBI agents would "show up, review the images

Conservative groups and some GOP lawmakers are pushing for more oversight of IRS rules as the agency works to carry out President Trump’s new tax law.
They are calling for the agency’s tax regulations to be subjected to more review from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). They also want the IRS to conduct cost-benefit analyses of regulations to determine how they will affect the economy.
The conservatives argue that doing so would improve the quality of the rules and subject them to the same type of oversight that is the norm for other federal agencies.
“The IRS must live by the same rules of administrative law and agency oversight as the rest of the Executive Branch,” a coalition of conservative-leaning groups — including the Cause of Action Institute, Americans for Tax Reform, the National Taxpayers Union and groups associated with conservative donors Charles and David Koch — wrote in a recent letter to Trump and other administration officials.

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Trump on Tariffs: Punish China By Taxing Americans
Video 19:33 min. Friday March 2, 2018 Ron Paul and Chris Rossini
Every special interest has a pitch on how to get government benefits at the expense of everyone else. This week we get the steel industry pitch. Beat China by paying a tax to the U.S. government. With enough propaganda, Americans will go along with it. But Ron Paul will tell the truth instead.

Rand Paul to Introduce ‘Audit the Fed’ as Amendment to Senate Banking Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the U.S. Senate expected to vote on S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, this week, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) today announced he will introduce his “Audit the Fed” bill, which would authorize the first-ever thorough audit of the Federal Reserve System, as an amendment to the financial reform legislation.

“While we have made great strides in reviving our economy through curbing overzealous regulation and cutting taxes, lasting prosperity will escape us if we do not hold the enabler of big government and our astronomical national debt accountable. It’s time for the Senate to side with the American people by removing the shackles on congressional oversight and lifting the Fed’s veil of secrecy. It’s time for us to pass Audit the Fed,” said Dr. Paul.

In January 2017, Dr. Paul reintroduced the Federal Reserve Transparency Act (S. 16), widely known as “Audit the Fed,” to prevent the Federal Reserve from concealing vital information on its operations from Congress. A year earlier, a bipartisan Senate majority voted 53-44 in support of Audit the Fed, falling just short of invoking cloture.

Audit the Fed would require the nonpartisan, independent Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a thorough audit of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors and reserve banks within one year of the bill’s passage and to report back to Congress within 90 days of completing the audit.

The legislation would amend section 714b of Title 31 of the U.S. Code to allow the GAO to fully audit:

· transactions for or with a foreign central bank, government of a foreign country, or nonprivate international financing organization;

· deliberations, decisions, or actions on monetary policy matters, including discount window operations, reserves of member banks, securities credit, interest on deposits, and open market operations;

· transactions made under the direction of the Federal Open Market Committee; or

· a part of a discussion or communication among or between members of the Board and officers and employees of the Federal Reserve System related to clauses (1)–(3) of this subsection.

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'Take The Guns First' - Trump's War On The Second Amendment
Video 18:06 min. Thursday March 1, 2018 Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams
Written by Daniel McAdams
President Trump shocked his base of supporters yesterday when he recommended that police grab guns of those they suspect shouldn't have them before any due process takes place. He is also appearing to cave in to demands primarily from Democrats that more restrictions on gun ownership be implemented. While the shooting in Florida was a tragedy, as we point out in today's Liberty Report a recent university study has shown that school shootings are significantly down over the past 20 years. It is a largely manufactured crisis in search of more restrictions on our liberties:http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives...ond-amendment/http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/...cond-amendment

The Pentagon announced last week that it was sending $40 million to the State Department's "Global Engagement Center" to "counter foreign disinformation." Much of the money will go to creating US disinformation, to meddling in the internal affairs of other countries, and to more jobs at neocon NGOs pushing pro-war propaganda. It's a massive rip-off and worse -- the targets are us.

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The Fed Is At A Crossroads - Crisis Coming
Video Friday February 23, 2018 Ron Paul and Chris Rossini
The Fed has created a mountain of problems. Every solution (of theirs) leads to even more problems.
Ron Paul talks about the what the Fed has done, how it tries to keep things going, and the inevitable economic crisis that is coming.

ASHLAND - The recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has prompted a nationwide discussion about gun violence in the country. The Daily Independent reached out to Kentucky’s federal legislators to hear their views on the subject. Here are their responses:

U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie, (R-Ky.) said his proposal for reducing school shootings is for the Kentucky state Legislature to implement a program where trained, approved and fully vetted teachers and administrators could voluntarily carry concealed weapons at a high school.

Massie said the Gun-Free School Zones Act does allow exemptions for states that pass laws that allow teachers or administrators

The recently-passed big-spending budget deal’s failure to generate significant opposition from the “tea party” has led some to pen obituaries for this once-powerful movement. These commentators may have a point. However, few of them understand the true causes of the tea party’s demise.

The movement commonly referred to as the tea party arose in opposition to the 2008 bank bailouts. The tea party grew as its focus shifted to opposition to President Obama’s policies, particularly his stimulus spending bill, cap-and-trade legislation, and, of course, the health care plan tea party leaders successfully branded as Obamacare. In its early days, the tea party was equally opposed to big spenders

Another terrible school shooting took place in Parkland, Florida last week and unfortunately many politicians and pundits have used the tragedy – as they often do – to push their own agenda. Many will use the tragedy to argue that Americans should be prohibited from owning guns. As if anti-gun laws would dissuade a disturbed or violent individual intent on causing harm. Those intent on mass murder don’t obey gun laws.

It’s unfortunate that while many are quick to demand that guns be taken away from peaceful Americans, they don’t seem to have much to say about guns when they’re in the hands of government authorities shooting innocent people. If we need any gun control,

Hello everyone!
As most of you know, I am running for NC State House out of the 7th District.
What many of you may not know, is on the last day of filing, I received a primary challenge.
We did not actually expect a primary challenger, but we do have one. My opponent is wealthy and largely self-funding, but her funds are listed as loans and she will be getting every penny of that back...

Unless one of two things occur:
The "movement" becomes sufficiently organized, or
A "reset event" occurs.
Addressing point the second, firstly: If worldwide plague, a large meteor strike, Jesus popping back in from wherever, aliens landing on the South Lawn, or something similar occurs, the utter disruption of the status quo would open the door to freedom enough such that if enough...

Is slavery any less despicable, even if by choice?
I had an epiphany last night. My username on here is truly a good example of how I, and millions of others mind you, feel in this day and age. I argue that this is not by choice, but by threat of violence. Here is what I see:
1. We are as free as our government masters, down to the petty tyrant at the DMV, allow us. Test my assertion...

He was on such a roll. But seemed very quiet this election cycle. He went back to FOX, but His truth in media site hardly gets updated anymore. I feel he and a few other "investigative journalists" had their backs turned as the other team was scoring touchdowns this election cycle. He and someone like Jon Stewart could of changed this election. In 2012, they brought up a lot about the "other...

Ron Paul & Rand Paul: News & Discussion

I ask because he has some more traditional/establishment views than his dad, and calls himself a libertarian-republican. He is not exactly a pro-weed advocate.
But I wonder if he is doing all of this for the long game and if he ever gets in power, libertarian-land here we come...

General News & Politics

I thought debt would decrease under GOP cut-spending/small gummit regime:
Saturday, March 17, 2018
National debt hits $21 trillion
Federal borrowing has been on the rise again since February, when Congress passed legislation to suspend the debt ceiling. (Mark...

EXCLUSIVE: Head Of Libertarian Party Named In Wikileaks List Of Secret US Intelligence Assets
Documents obtained through Wikileaks reveal that the current Chairman of the Libertarian Party has a relationship with the disgraced Stratfor intelligence group.
By John Vibes - March 17, 2018
In late 2011, hackers managed to crack into the databases of the global intelligence firm Stratfor and...

Scientific American continues on its activist leftward path, diluting its scientific brand by transmitting biased anti-gun propaganda under the cover of academic sociology.
The latest entry was posted Wednesday and has become a popular post: “Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? — Research suggests it’s largely because they’re anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure...

White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short complained of Senate Democrats’ obstruction of President Donald Trump’s nominees, saying at this rate, it will take 11 and a half years for his nominees to be given an up-or-down vote.
In the last four administrations combined, the Senate held 17 cloture votes of presidential nominees compared to the 79 cloture vote in the first 14...

US CENTCOM Chief Comes Clean: General's Three Stunning Admissions In The Mid-East
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-18/us-centcom-chief-comes-clean-generals-three-stunning-admissions-mid-east
Assad has won
Iran deal should stand
Saudis use American weapons without accountability in Yemen
U.S. Army General Joseph Votel's stunning Congressional testimony

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/03/14/237248/toys-r-us-to-close-all-800-of-its-us-stores
Everything is awesome!
Its okay tho since you can just go to Amazon and get all the same $#@!! Screw Toys Were Us, they had a bad business model! Its their own fault and the economy is STRONG! Jesus, I keep talking like that, I will probably deserve some negative rep!

I'm curious to see how fast the debt rises over the next few months before we hit the next debt ceiling. We normally borrow a trillion a year, so that would put us at about 20.9 trillion by year's end, plus we got hit by 3 hurricanes. The debt is only at 20.2 so we'd have to borrow another 800 billion or so before the end of the year to catch up. Although my guess is they can't borrow that much...

This study sends bit different message than the one in news few days ago that covered longevity promoting effects.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/america-binge-175-billion-drinks-worth-study/story?id=53795860

This fall the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new Chief Oyarde if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he’d never learned the old tribal secrets. He couldn’t look at the sky to predict what the winter was going to be like.
"It's going to be a very cold winter."
So just to be on the safe side, Oyarde told his tribe that the...

Drinking alcohol key to living past 90
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/drinking-alcohol-key-living-90-article-1.3829634
Monday, February 19, 2018, 12:07 PM
Cheers to life — seriously.
When it comes to making it into your 90s, booze actually beats exercise, according to a long-term study.

Education & Thought Power

As I read and see and hear the rhetoric of those we may conversationally label as "the left", it becomes clearer with each passing day that America is nigh upon what may be its most critical nexus to date, one possible result standing to see the dismantling of the last hope for humanity to escape global, technologically-enabled servitude of a nature and completeness never before experienced.
...

I was confabbing with my little brother the other day - brother of another mother, that is. He is one of the more brilliant men I have known in my lifetime.
We were discussing the hows and whys of the successes of the so-called "left" vis-à-vis the predictable failures of the so-called "right". I made the point that the left is well funded and well-organized, whereas the right appear to be...

Today, March 16, Marks the 50 Year Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre
March 16 marks the 50th anniversary of the date that does not live in infamy. … In 1968, American soldiers slaughtered animals, raped villagers, and murdered 109 "Oriental human beings" in My Lai. That was the number cited in a court-martial 18 months later.
The memorial there today, however, lists 504 men, women, and...

Provincial life continued much as it had in districts like Cornwall. Frontier villas remained profitable for a time, commerce didn't just disappear when Odoacer took Rome in the 400s. Even after violence done upon them, by man or by nature, civilization doesn't need to just stop either - it can continue - but at some time Western Roman civilization collapsed.
As a rule, we don't just point to...